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Daniela Boraschi
Interactive School Illustration (2006)
Daniela Boraschia & Eva Kellenberger as part of a team of architects
and designers working with young people from 4 primary schools.

"...How do you imagine going to a school that does not exist yet and what is your school going to look like..."
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Project inspired by the pupils' visions on their new secondary school. We categorized,illustrated and printed on magnetic paper single elements used by children in their drawings and in their stories to describe their new future school to design a game for creating and shaping people's imaginary schools.


Some of the pupils' drawings ...

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This is the list of the schools elements in the children's visions:

DREAM SCHOOL LIST COLORS: beige, cream, light colours, neutral Each season colours should change: cold seasons - hot colours ( summer – blue, autumn - orange, winter-red )

SPACE: private space with entry-code( or floating book system) to chill-out inside the building :( 7 different ones for the classes and one mixed up for all the years); TV inside, adults not allowed in, café, picnic table wavy, colorful but relaxing, maybe baby blue for girls and dark blue for boys secondary colours like gray spongy benches outside curving walls workshop with storage self-designed and without teachers playground with benches I.C.T. Area and interactive white boards A library in the school with different books

PURPOSE: meeting place for children from around the world

UNIFORMS: same colours boys and girls (part of the same community)

LAYOUT: little group of children sit at round tables

TRANSPORT SYSTEM: a bus for girls and one for boys maybe blue

SCOOL AS: circus, cinema floating glass made high up in the sky fun park tall building music school dome like wire structure outside field like a zoo no fences and cages flying around like superman and visiting schools around the world football field

SHEDS AND SHELTERS: repairing from rain

FLOORS: many specific subject: Walls: glass, water and fishes in between like aquariums fishes and bubbles

CORRIDORS: empty long tunnels

ROOMS: Labyrinth dark little as square dice space observatory lab learning room Playing room relaxing room quite room nature water balls and materials rooms publishing area

ROOFS: domed glass round

DOORS: huge closed sliding frames round huge

WINDOWS: huge

MIRRORS: deforming

CHAIRS: floating transporting-chairs to go everywhere in the world

DESKS: fish tanks floating technical computer incorporated and music semi circles

LOCKERS: special: a coffee table would pop out and lots of sweets bigger inside than outside

TABLES: big and round

FISHES: clown fishes every species STAIRS: spiral suspended in the air spiral escalators

MACHINES: feeding – for writing messages to pilots and UFOs water machine in children’s mouth as translators

BUTTONS: gravity taker

POP CORNS BOOKS: floating round

BALLS: football basketball tennis

COMPUTERS: floating

PLANTS: floating flowers growing seeds water plants jungle children planting trees forest enormous filling the rooms

SWINGS TO RELAX

ANIMALS: dears everywhere birds, swans, fishes stuff puppies parrots fish catfish rat house

SWIMMING POOL AND FOUNTAINS

ART WOKRS: painting, all over the walls, holograms statues of trainers and lots of cartoon characters on the walls

TEACHERS: robot on screens only with mechanic heads and flexible body